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They’d had to begin all over again, as if the life they led before didn’t count.
“All children live in their parents’ realities or the realities of those who raise them, but to be the children of immigrants is, in a sense, varying degrees of living in our parents’ remaking of the country in which they were born.”
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
“Cheng’s broader argument is that identity formation—and racial identity formation in particular—is melancholic itself and is shaped by the push-pulls of loss and recovery.2 I get this. The immigrant family tries to preserve a history and a life that the surroundings resist. They try to invent a new way of being while always seeking a home within the negative space.”
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
― Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
“Because that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
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